Contents

Collections

The Collection extension facilitates grouping pages for export to PDF or other format. (See Wikieducator for an example). This is the system Wikipedia uses to create eBooks. It can be used with MediaWiki 1.14 or later. See this extensive tutorial. Also see instructions for using this extension as a Book tool.

Easy installation

Note: python-setuptools >= 0.6c11 is required, but is not included in (K)Ubuntu Lucid or earlier. Download and install (using sudo dpkg -i) a newer python-setuptools .deb package from the Debian (unstable) repositories. Also required is a newer python-pkg-resources .deb package.

Start the mw server

These settings are the default, except for -d. The -d switch indicates to run as a daemon. Although the default port is 8899, this can be changed. (Don't forget to open necessary firewalls and to forward ports on your router if the rendering server is to be publicly accessible.)

This command can be added as a startup command. For example, copy the command to a startup script (use the gedit text editor instead of kate if using Ubuntu instead of Kubuntu):

sudo kate ~/.kde/Autostart/mwserver.sh

The command can also be added as a menu item.

The script or the menu item (as a Program) can also be added to the Autostart menu: